Heave, Ho!

Abstract

I had a day free for book-hunting and other fun in Chicago and I walked over from Taylor Street to Pilsen. There I found a small community bookshop, "pilsen comm-unity books." There I found this book, not labeled as a fable but a fable nonetheless. Worms gather to resist the plucking of one worm by a bird. A cat and then a dog gather in this tug-of-war between above-the-surface animals and a number of below-the-surface worms. Finally one worm gets the idea of biting the dog's tail. The dog, cat, and bird all begin to bicker, and the worms go free. Of course the bookmark that comes with the book is a serpentine worm!